BENGALURU: The UK government said on Wednesday it had agreed to a 5 billion pound ($6.50 billion) deal with housebuilders to eradicate flammable cladding on buildings over 11 meters high. Removing the ...

UK government sets cladding removal deadlineThe UK government has set out plans for a new law that would set a deadline for building owners to fix unsafe cladding. UK government sets cladding removal ...

Five years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed critical failures in the safety of high-rise buildings in the UK, the resulting “cladding scandal” continues to affect thousands of homeowners. For ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK housebuilders will be given 18 months to start fixing dangerous cladding on blocks of flats under government ...

The latest government data reveals there are 4,613 residential buildings 11m and over with unsafe cladding Remediation work has begun or been completed on only 50% of the 4,630 housing blocks that are ...